James W Hewitt is the author of this book. He is president of the Friends of the Center for Great Plains Studies. This story was published in 2015 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. James W Hewitt returns to McCook, Nebraska to see the scene of the crime that scared the small town of McCook. In the story it talked about a love triangle that involved Kay Hoyt, Harold Nokes, and his wife Ena Nokes. Kay is the daughter of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt. Kay had some difficulties in her life. She has been looked as the black sheep of the family. She was the only child of Edwin and Wilma who was divorce and now she is a single mother of two daughters. When this story took place was in the year 1973 and at that point divorces were not common as they are today. The people in the community will see them in shame around that time period. Kay’s brother and sisters did not approve of the way their parents are always turning the other side when it involved Kay’s problems that she caused on herself. Kay and Harold had an affair that has been going on for many years. Ena was also involved in that affair and she didn’t care about it. After a while Kay realized that she didn’t want to be involved in that type of relationship any more. She wanted to do for her parents. Her father Edwin did not really like the fact that Kay was getting involved with Harold. Edwin disapproved of the whole relationship. It felt like he did not want her daughter to get hurt because it seemed that
When America entered into the Second World War it made their friends from different region and everywhere in the world to unite and fight for freedom and also fight against fascism. Ronald Takaki, a famous historian finds out that the armed fight for democracy abroad was followed by disregard of America that everyone was made or created equal. There was racism of all kinds; segregation of African Americans and imprisonment of Japanese Americans and also denying to overall asylum to the Jewish refugees.
Jack Johnson entitled his autobiography “Jack Johnson is a Dandy”. After reading Tony Al-GIlmore’s Ba-ad Nigger!, the autobiography title is all the explanation one needs. If Al-Gilmore was trying to paint a rosy picture of an African American savior, then he did not succeed. Not that his book was a negative portrayal of Johnson. Rather, he laid out the facts and let the reader form his own opinion. Aiding this were the articles from both black and white newspapers that he used as sources for his paper. While the book 's title suggests it is a story of Jack Johnson 's great boxing career, it turns out to be about the society’s acceptance, or lack thereof, of him.
Alister McGrath, from the very beginning of this book, plainly states what the dangerous idea is all about. “The dangerous new idea, firmly embodied at the heart of the Protestant
For Iowa Lakes Criminal Justice class Introduction to Corrections I read the book Bloodsworth By Tim Junkin for my book report. The book follows the story of a man named Kirk Bloodsworth. Bloodsworth was convicted and charged for the murder and rape of a nine-year-old girl in 1984. He was sentenced to death for those charges in Maryland and gas chamber was the execution put fourth. During his whole time in prison Kirk Bloodsworth said he was innocent. He researched everyday he could and read law book after law book. He researched about DNA testing something that was very new to the time, and he searched for a lawyer that would take on his case after he had been incarcerated for over nine years. DNA testing would become very beneficial to him.
The book Leading From the Second Chair discusses what it is like to lead from the second chair. This was a semi-new concept for me. I have always heard of leadership and know that it is something special, however, I never thought of leading from the second chair. This phrase means being a leader but not the person in charge. This is something that is foreign to me. I have always though that a leader is in charge of their section and other leaders are in charge of their section and eventually they come together to put it all together. However, though going through the experience of my internship and going through this book and leadership class I have learned that this is not the case. When you lead from the second chair you are
The excerpt from George S. Sawyer’s Southern Institution starts off with a fantastic quote that reads, “He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that horsforth himself, and lacketh bread” (Sawyer 1). The deeper meaning of this quote is that it is better to be a man that people dislike, but still have a servant, than being a man who pretends to be somebody and has no food. This quote is a great portrayal of how the document is written and the bias that it contains. Sawyer was a southerner who was pro-slavery. There isn’t much else known about the man responsible for this historic document. This document was created in the middle 19th century, a time in American history abundant with slavery. In this time, the southern states were fighting for slavery and the expansion of its economic benefits, while the north wanted to abolish slavery from the country. In his document, Sawyer is doing everything he can to persuade people who read it that slavery is a good thing and that the south is well run in comparison to the northern states. Sawyer does an incredibly great job of providing information to his audience that will make his arguments seem more valid and believable. It is hard for someone to read this document and not believe that what he has to say is true. Sawyer uses statistics from the census to better his arguments, expands upon those stats to help prove his point and also uses statistics that benefit the southern states strictly. Statistics aren’t his
The discovery of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania in the late 1700s led to the development of a robust coal industry in the eastern part of Pennsylvania that grew rapidly and contributed greatly to the history and the economy of Pennsylvania. The book The Face of Decline written by Thomas Dublin, Walter Licht, provides a well written historical and personal account of the discovery, growth, and finally the collapse of the anthracite coal industry in Pennsylvania in a chronological format. Half way through the book one starts to notice some changes in the authors format to cause and effect. The change occurs in order to discuss the cause and resulting effect of events in the region and the solutions. The story is one of great growth and opportunity in the early years which are highlighted by the documented economic growth experienced and supported through testimony within the eastern Pennsylvania coal region. After a period of economic prosperity and community growth from 1900 through 1940 challenges began to erode and occur that created problems for the community and the economy that the coal industry provided. Finally the region’s economy suffered horrendous losses as described by interviews of local residents and families who lived and experienced the rise of the region’s economy. Many of the scars are still evident by the blight and decaying scenes one would experience by traveling through the region’s communities that once fueled the American economy with the energy
George Sherston, the main character of Sherston’s Progress, is a curious mentality for the reader to decipher. As a victim of Shell Shock, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) he is persistently grappling with understanding his own mind and this becomes the task of the reader as well. Due to this omnipresent task, one becomes a psychoanalyst of George. The only difference between Rivers and the reader is that Rivers actually interacts with George while the reader can only sit back and watch. I will be investigating the first section of the book to better understand the character Rivers.
James Fenimore Cooper’s book The Last of the Mohicans, takes place in the frontier of western New York during the French and Indian War. The book is about two daughters getting escorted to see their father, the hardships that come with it, and the events afterward. While telling the story, I will tell you about two characters and how they either changed or resisted change. The characters that I will discuss are David Gamut, who changed, and Cora Munro, who resisted change.
Jalapeno bagels is about a boy named Pablo whom cannot decide what to take to school for International Day. He wants to bring something from his parents’ baker. He wants something that represent his heritage but he cannot decide what to bring. His mother who is Mexican baked pan dulce and change bars. His father who is Jewish baked bagels and challah. Both of the bake good were good but while helping his parents with the bakery on Sunday morning, Pablo made a decision on what to bring. He decided to bring jalapeno bagels because they are a mixture both of his parents and just like him too. The multicultural representations in the story line is Mexican and Jewish. The pictures that were drawn in the book, the family has the same color of skin even though the parents are different cultures and the main character is mixed. There were no different skin colors.
In his book Member of the Club, Lawrence Otis Graham details the struggles of living as a black student at Princeton University. The chapter “The Underside of Paradise” opens up with a quote by Paul Robeson that compared living in Princeton to living in a southern plantation. Despite Graham attending Princeton three decades later, he found the quote to be accurate in describing his own student experience at the esteemed college where subtle but real racial segregation divided the campus. Through an analysis with the functionalist perspective, the tension and division between the white and black students can be understood as a result of organic solidarity. Ultimately, the two groups of people are part of an interconnected society. However, they are separated by issues of civil rights. Black students are able to relate to the injustices that take place in the world. However, white students are often unable to do so and remain indifferent and separated from the issues. An example can be seen when Graham participated in the antiapartheid movement and his roommate Steve confronted Graham and asked, “Please don’t get offended by this, but do blacks really think Americans are so terrible, and that things are so racist and unfair in the United States?” (Graham, 1995, p. 204). In a sense, the racial segregation could also be seen as a mechanism to prevent conflict between the two groups. As Emile Durkheim (1972) states, “The closer functions approach one-another, however, the more
IV. What is the main problem Breyer describes in Breaking the Vicious Circle concerning United States policy making? What causes it and how does the problem develop? How does it affect business? What solution does Breyer propose? Describe another plausible solution. Which of the two solutions, Breyer’s of that you just described do you consider morally preferable and why? What ethical theory discussed in class best supports your position? Critically assess this theory by contrast with other ethical theories discussed in class.
A romantic drama film is a genre that explores the difficult aspects that come with love. The plot usually includes two people that are in love that can’t be together the way they want to be due to obstacles. The obstacles in a romantic drama film can include a family 's disapproval, to forbidden love, to one 's own psychological restrictions. The Notebook is a movie based on a best-selling novel that was written by author Nicholas Sparks. This is a love story that is composed of a series of obstacles between two young people that are madly in love with each other. It perfectly fits and displays the criteria for a successful romantic drama film because it includes the complexity of love, and elicits emotions.
In the prologue of the book it starts with an image of Ronald Reagan on his deathbed pressed close to his desperate wife. It’s a good picture to see what leads Regan to end up being in that position. In the first chapter the reader is introduced to John Hinckley Jr. He seems like a pretty typical twenty five year old man who has a strange obsession with an actress (Dugard and O’Reilly 13). This is only the future, right now, Reagan is having the time of his life, and doesn’t even have a clue that he will go into politics.
Samuel Wallace was tired of being humiliated and degraded by his boss, Mr. Marin, so one Monday, Samuel killed him.